When we opened West nine years ago, I remember creating a website at the beginning of the school year. It was very basic, blah, and wasn’t really ready to go until a month into the school year. In the wayback machine, I found the oldest archive of the site over a year later. Much improved, [...]
I recently read Joyce Valenza’s post about library website for high school. She showed many examples of high school library web pages that display 2.0 tools and other ways to interact with students. While I love the ideas presented, I fear that by adding a high volume of things to a small space on the [...]
LibraryThing has been an invaluable tool for us and with the redesign of the fiction area this year, it has been amazing. We love to post the widgets on our webpage. See an older post about how Blue Valley West High School Library uses Librarything.
Caution: Random thoughts… I am now working on the new school library website (http://www.bvswlmc.com) and now have libguides set up as well (http://libguides.bvswlmc.com). Why am I working on this now? During June 1 in-service, all departments will be meeting as department PLCs. I want to provide information (handout and electronic format) to all teachers. It [...]
I added a Twitter feed on the library web page. Why? Well, I was reading my blogline feeds today and saw a recent post from Hey Jude, a powerpoint from Nathan Wright and Hilary Brown discusses Library 2.0 . Although a lot of the information is directed to public libraries, the examples of how public [...]
